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Historic Venezuela oil deal cements US dominance

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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

🏦 Bank of America executive killed in Times Square. Erin Piacenti, a 32-year-old vice president at Bank of America, was fatally stabbed by a knife-wielding woman in New York City’s Times Square on Monday. Police shot and killed the attacker after she refused to drop her weapons. A second victim remains hospitalized in critical condition.

🚨 ICE arrests nearly 2,200 illegals in New York sweep. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced that “Operation Rotten Apple” netted convicted murderers, child rapists, and drug traffickers over a monthlong operation conducted “with no help” from NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) or NY Gov. Kathy Hochul (D).

💥 Trump orders strikes in the Strait of Hormuz. US Central Command confirmed strikes against Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps positions along Iran’s southern coast, hitting targets in Bandar Abbas, Jask, and several other cities. The limited operation aims to degrade Iran’s ability to threaten oil tankers, Navy ships, and Air Force aircraft.

🎖️ Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns after 18 months. The youngest-ever Army Secretary stepped down Monday night, and while no reason was given for his departure, speculation suggests friction between him and War Sec. Pete Hegseth. Driscoll is an Iraq War veteran and a former Yale Law classmate of Vice President JD Vance.

WORLD NEWS

Le Pen pledges a referendum on Islamist ideologies

Behind the paywall: The referendum Le Pen wants to put to French voters, the border Italy is keeping shut, and what Russia did once the CIA talks collapsed.

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Bovino claims 107 million illegal immigrants live in the US

The number a former Border Patrol commander gave Tucker Carlson, and how far off it is…

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ASK THE EDITORS

Data center health concerns

Q: Have you looked into the health implications of all these data centers? — Lisa from Ohio

A: A lot of the evidence right now leans heavily on anecdotes rather than conclusive studies. For example, residents living extremely close to specific facilities have reported some health problems, like one Texas case involving a bitcoin mining facility sitting less than 100 yards from a mobile home park, where residents reported vertigo, migraines, and high blood pressure.

Noise appears to be the most credible concern, since chronic exposure to that kind of low-frequency sound is already linked in public health research to stress, insomnia, and concentration problems, especially for people living in very close proximity to a facility.

Beyond that, a 2025 study projected that by 2030, data centers could contribute to roughly 600,000 asthma symptom cases and 1,300 premature deaths annually, but that's a modeled projection based on general emissions data, not a study that tracked actual health outcomes in people living near these sites over time.

So the bottom line is that if you live right next to one of these facilities, there’s possibly reason for concern (particularly with the noise), but we don't yet have the kind of rigorous, peer-reviewed research that would let anyone say definitively how much health risk data centers pose or at what distance that risk actually starts to fade.

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US History: Which former president had Addison's disease?

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POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY

📊 Do you approve of Donald Trump’s job performance?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✅ Approve (1,359)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ❌ Disapprove (77)
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤷‍♂️ Somewhere in the middle (299)

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✅ Approve: “He is not perfect, but he truly loves the USA and has done much to bring our country back to normalcy. Imagine the damage Harris could have done.” — Kurt

❌ Disapprove: “He has backtracked on everything he promised in the campaign: mass deportations not happening, Epstein became a ‘Democrat hoax,’ another Middle Eastern war. I’m disgusted with him.” — CW

🤷‍♂️ Somewhere in the middle: “He's doing a good job overall, much better than Dems, but I'm not happy with the length of the war in Iran and also the data centers!” — Candice

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